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Accord Equality & Fairness Report 2020 Mill Street The Accord Way - Open-Minded under 35’s housing under 35’s housing In 2018, Accord started to look at developing a low cost housing solution for under 35’s that would meet the constraints of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) limit. Our key design philosophy was to create a Low Carbon and sustainable build solution, based upon our local Homes ECO 200 housing system. A site was identified at Mill Street in Bilston, Wolverhampton and construction began in March 2019 with completion in May 2020. This saw a fully collaborative in house approach from design through to construction, as well as enabling us to trial our innovative H-pod. The H-pod forms the centre section of the apartment 53